Garment bag holder



July 8 1941 F. c. BAUER 2,248,736

GARMENT BAG HOLDER Fil'ed May 1l, 1938 SWW/nm WMM Patented `uly 8, 1941 :um IED sinapsis PAT EN r crees f GARDIEN T BSAG HQLDER Fredrick C. Bauer, Seville, Ohio Application May 11, 1938, Serial No. 207,286

(Cl. 20G-65) 2 Claims.

The invention relates to garment bags such as are commonly used by cleaning and pressing establishments, tailors and the like, and to apparatus by means of which a suit, dress or other garment supported upon the conventional coat or garment hanger may be quickly and easily enclosed within the ordinary paper garment bag used for such purpose.

An object of the invention is the provision of an apparatus for. supporting a plurality of the paper garment bags in the form of a package in a convenient position above a support for a coat or garment hanger upon which the garment to be covered is hung, whereby the innermost bag of the packet may be quickly and easily pulled down over the garment supported upon the hanger.

Another object is the provision of a novel package of a plurality of the garment bags nested one within the other and detachably connected to a tube of card-board or the like from which the bags may be detached one at a time for us in enclosing a garment.

A further object is the provision of a package of bags of this character in which each bag may be provided with perforated ears or tabs pasted or otherwise connected to the tube so that the bags may be independently detached from the tube.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive structure of the character referred to which is easy to operate and effective in use.

The above objects together with others which will be apparent from the drawing and following description or which may be hereinafter referred to may be attained by constructing the device in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the improved bag holder;

Fig. 2, an enlarged detail section showing the manner in which the bags are connected to the paste-board tube; and

Fig. 3, a section taken as on the line 3 3, Fig. 2;

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawing.

'I'he entire apparatus to which the invention pertains may be suspended from a bracket indicated generally at Ill which may be attached to the ceiling, sidewall or other overhead support.

This bracket may be provided with an eye II for connection of the hook I2 at the upper end of the rod I3 which supports the package of garment bags as will be later described, the lower end of the rod being provided with a hook or eye I4 to receive the usual hook I5 of the conventional garment hanger I6 upon which a coat, suit or other garment to be enclosed in a bag may be hung as indicated generally at II.`

The rod I3 has a shoulder or collar I8 xed thereon at a point spaced from the upper end of the rod for the purpose of supporting a package of garment bags in suitable position above the garment I1.

For the purpose of the invention the garment bags each of which is indicated generally at I9 may be of .conventional design and are preferably formed of collapsible paper or may be slightly tapered toward their upper ends so that a plurality of the bags may be nested together to form a package as shown in the drawing.

The manner in which the package of bags is made up forms a novel feature of the invention. As shown in the drawing the upper ends of the several bags forming the package are connected to a tube 20 of paste-board or the like which may be in the form of a short section of the ordinary mailing tube.

It is usual on such bags to provide a small opening in the upper end of the bag to receive the hook I5 of the garment hanger and this pasteboard tube is inserted through these openings in the upper ends of the several bags which are detachably connected to the paste-board tube at this point.

The bags may be detachably connected to the paste-board tube in many dilerent ways, a preferred construction being shown in Figs. 2 and 3 in which a pairsof ears or tabs 2| is formed at the upper end of each bag preferably on opposite sides of opening 22, these ears being pasted, glued or otherwise attached to the paste-board tube 20.

'I'his provides a very satisfactory detachable connection between each bag and the paste-board tube, permitting the bag to be easily detached from the tube by a slight downward pull upon the bag.

In practice a package of the bags made up in the manner above described is supported upon the upper end portion of the rod I3 by means of the paste-board tube 2l] resting upon the collar or shoulder I8 of thel rod.

The hook I2 of the rod is then connected to the bracket I0, supporting the package of bags overhead' at the desired height.

The coat or other garment is then placed upon the garment hanger I6 and the hook I5 thereof is engaged with the lower end of the rod I3 thus placing the garment to be enclosed within a bag immediately below the bags I9 as shown in Fig. 1.

The innermost bag I9 of the package is then pulled downward tearing the small ears or tabs 2| which connect the bag to the tube 20 so that the bag is detached from the package and may then be pulled down the rod I3 and over the garment II to completely enclose the same.

From the above it Will be obvious that the operation thus described may be repeated as many times as there are bags in the package before it is necessary to place additional bags upon the supporting rod I3.

I claim:

1. In a device of the character described a package of nested garment bags, each bag having a central aperture in its closed end, a tube disposed longitudinally relative to the bags and located through the apertures of all of the bags in the package, and tabs extending into said apertures for detachably connecting each bag to the tube independently of the other bags.

2. In a device of the character described a package of nested garment bags, each bag having a central aperture in its closed end, a tube disposed longitudinally relative to the bags and 1ocated through the apertures of all of the bags in the package and means adjacent to said apertures for detachably connecting each bag to the tube independently of the other bags.

FREDRICK C. BAUER 

